Journey Leads D.I.C.E. Award Nominations

The nominees for the D.I.C.E. awards have been announced, and Journey leads the pack. The D.I.C.E. awards take place during the D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit, a leading peer-to-peer awards ceremony.

A wide variety of titles have been recognised by the awards this year, with 63 titles nominated from big-budget console efforts to smaller mobile and web games. But it's Journey has received an impressive eleven nominations, including a nod for Game of the Year. Other contenders for that award include: Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, The Walking Dead, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Journey, of course, won IGN's Game of the Year for 2012:

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Other games that received multiple nominations include The Walking Dead with 8 nods, Far Cry 3 with 7, Halo 4 with 6, and Borderlands 2 and Dishonored both got 5.

The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, February 7th at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas during the 2013 D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit, and will be hosted by Chris Hardwick, the founder of Nerdist.com and of AMC's Talking Dead.

"The D.I.C.E. Awards are very important to me," Hardwick said. "I have been playing videogames since there were videogames. I hope there is some type of Dovahkiin Shout that will make sure I don't mess this up. I will find one! If not, I'll just look like a psychotic, screaming asshole leading up to the awards."

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